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1
As described in "America's First Immigrants," the boldest new proposal among the ideas being suggested about the peopling of the Americas is the idea that:
A)Clovis people migrated from Asia across the Bering Strait.
B)the first people in America came from Europe.
C)the first Americans walked here over a million years ago.
D)Indians are indigenous to North America.
2
As reported in "America's First Immigrants," finds at the Gault site suggest that Clovis people:
A)subsisted largely on mammoth.
B)created no permanent settlements.
C)were entirely nomadic.
D)had tools for gathering plants.
3
As noted in "America's First Immigrants," new research suggests that Clovis people were responsible for the extinction of most of the large fauna such as giant beavers and mastodons of North America.
A)True
B)False
4
As discussed in "1491," environmentalists dislike the theory that Native Americans were once altering the Amazon rain forest's landscape to suit their needs as the keystone species because:
A)environmentalists are no longer guided by the pristine myth.
B)it has been largely proven that Native Americans were not a keystone species.
C)crediting ancient peoples with such endeavors would allow modern governments to do as they see fit with the Amazon.
D)there is little solid evidence that the Native Americans cultivated the Amazon rain forest.
5
As put forward by "1491," colonists were able to settle in New England without serious opposition from the natives because:
A)the Puritans made fair treaties with the natives, which they honored.
B)diseases brought by Europeans had decimated native populations in coastal New England.
C)early traders had paved the way by making contacts with Native Americans.
D)the colonials purchased the lands they settled from the Indians.
6
As cited in "1491," author Henry F. Dobyns estimated that in 1491 there were more people living in North America than in Europe.
A)True
B)False
7
As identified in "Massacre in Florida," France's first permanent colony in what would later become the United States was:
A)Fort Duquesne (in Pennsylvania).
B)Fort Michilimackinac (in Michigan).
C)La Nouvelle-Orleans (in Louisiana).
D)Fort Caroline (in Florida).
8
As characterized in "Massacre in Florida," like the English pilgrims, most of the French settlers were spirited:
A)Protestants.
B)Roman Catholics.
C)adventurers.
D)reformers.
9
As noted in "Massacre in Florida," by the 1560s, France had established rugged outposts in the New World along what would become known as the Mississippi.
A)True
B)False
10
As mentioned in "Jamestown Hangs in the Balance," Jamestown, established in May 1607, was settled under the sponsorship of the:
A)Dutch West India Company.
B)Plymouth & Virginia Bay Company.
C)Virginia Company of London.
D)British Tea & Spice Company.
11
As related in "Jamestown Hangs in the Balance," in June 1609, a Jamestown-bound fleet commanded by Sir Thomas Gates met up with a hurricane, and the flagship was wrecked upon the reefs surrounding:
A)Barbados.
B)Jamaica.
C)Virgin Gorda.
D)Bermuda.
12
As noted in "Jamestown Hangs in the Balance," for the English, securing Virginia meant bringing Protestantism to the Indians.
A)True
B)False
13
As related in "A Pox on the New World," after an encounter in Nauset Bay, halfway down Cape Cod, Samuel de Champlain was convinced he had no hope of starting a colony in this area, due to the fact that:
A)the indigenous people were aggressive and violent.
B)too many people already lived there.
C)the climate was too harsh.
D)the coastline was extremely hazardous for even the smallest ships.
14
As cited in "A Pox on the New World," when English poet-adventurer Thomas Morton wrote in the 1620s that, all along the New England coast, they "died in heapes, as they lay in their houses," he was referring to the:
A)American Indians.
B)French Huguenots.
C)English Pilgrims.
D)Spanish settlers.
15
As set forth in "A Pox on the New World," the primary reason the Pilgrims fared better than Champlain is that they were more successful in befriending the indigenous peoples.
A)True
B)False
16
In discussing Samuel de Champlain's view of war, the author of "Champlain Among the Mohawk, 1609" notes that Champlain:
A)considered war a noble profession.
B)was dedicated to fighting for peace.
C)rated war as the world's greatest evil.
D)valued war as the equivalent of diplomacy.
17
As discussed in "Champlain Among the Mohawk, 1609," the tribe that was not part of the French alliance was the:
A)Montagnais.
B)Algonquin.
C)Huron.
D)Mohawk.
18
As suggested in "Champlain Among the Mohawk, 1609," peace treaties in Europe made North America accessible for colonization.
A)True
B)False
19
As related in "New Amsterdam Becomes New York," Peter Stuyvesant made the agreement to surrender New Amsterdam to the British with:
A)the Duke of York.
B)King Charles II.
C)John Winthrop.
D)Cotton Mather.
20
The Indian attack described in "Taken by Indians," took place during the conflict later known as:
A)Queen Anne's War.
B)King Philip's War.
C)the French and Indian War.
D)the Aroostook War.
21
As stated in "Taken by Indians," Mary Rowlandson was sustained during her ordeal by:
A)food she had hidden in her clothes.
B)Indian women who felt sorry for her.
C)encouragement from her family members who were also captives.
D)her religious faith.
22
As characterized in "Taken by Indians," Rowlandson's written account of her captivity was part adventure story, part spiritual autobiography.
A)True
B)False
23
Conclusions about belief in witchcraft in New England and elsewhere, as reached in "Blessed and Bedeviled: Tales of Remarkable Providences in Puritan New England," include that such belief was:
A)strengthened by the providential air the Puritans gave their enterprise.
B)peculiar to New England.
C)seen as disruptive to societal order.
D)not present among Roman Catholics.
24
As discussed in "Blessed and Bedeviled: Tales of Remarkable Providences in Puritan New England," Giles Corey was executed for:
A)being a warlock.
B)shielding his wife from the prosecutor.
C)refusing to stand trial for witchcraft.
D)teaching witchcraft to his daughter.
25
As noted in "Blessed and Bedeviled: Tales of Remarkable Providences in Puritan New England," Governor Hutchinson held in his writings that from its founding Massachusetts had been obsessed with hanging witches.
A)True
B)False
26
As discussed in "Pontiac's War," the British commander in North America who incited a bloody and widespread rebellion by executing a Pani woman for her part in a murder was:
A)Thomas Gage.
B)Jeffery Amherst.
C)Henry Clinton.
D)John Burgoyne.
27
As identified in "Pontiac's War," Pontiac was chief of the:
A)Ottawa.
B)Mohawk.
C)Seneca.
D)Onondaga.
28
As pointed out in "Pontiac's War," by lavishing presents and deference upon the Indians, Sir William Johnson enticed them to sign several treaties between 1764 and 1766.
A)True
B)False
29
As noted in "The Sparck of Rebellion," Britain's prime minister at the time of the Boston Tea Party was:
A)Lord North.
B)Lord John Cavendish.
C)George III.
D)William Pitt the Younger.
30
As stated in "The Sparck of Rebellion," the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place on the British ships moored at:
A)Gorton's Pier.
B)Griffin's Wharf.
C)Newhall Dock.
D)Von Nostrand's Landing.
31
According to "The Sparck of Rebellion," by October 1770, Boston's merchants announced that they would no longer honor the patriots' boycott of British imports.
A)True
B)False
32
According to "The Gain from Thomas Paine," Thomas Paine contended that the most prosperous invention of the Devil for the promotion of idolatry was:
A)government by kings.
B)the church.
C)marriage.
D)capitalism.
33
As noted in "The Gain from Thomas Paine," the crime for which Paine was convicted in England was:
A)treasonous utterances.
B)espionage.
C)seditious libel.
D)incitement to riot.
34
As stated in "The Gain from Thomas Paine," Thomas Paine narrowly escaped execution in France.
A)True
B)False
35
As clarified in "One Revolution Two Wars," American colonists who opposed the Revolution called themselves:
A)the New England Faithful.
B)Tories.
C)British Americans.
D)Loyalists.
36
According to "One Revolution Two Wars," anti-radicals by the thousands signed oaths of allegiance to the Crown, as administered by Royal Governor of New York:
A)Robert Johnson.
B)Francis Nicholson.
C)William Tryon.
D)Thomas Robinson.
37
As noted in "One Revolution Two Wars," ultimately, New York would send more men into Loyalist regiments than into the Continental Army.
A)True
B)False
38
John Jay and John Rutledge, as described in "God and the Founders," originally objected to opening the Continental Congress with a prayer, as this would:
A)emphasize the religious foundation of the new government they were establishing.
B)open some of the members to charges that they were atheists.
C)highlight the differences in religious sentiments among the Founders.
D)distract the participants from their true purpose in meeting.
39
The religious right's conviction that the United States is a "Christian nation" and can return to its original Christian values, as described in "God and the Founders," is largely based on:
A)historical precedent.
B)wishful thinking.
C)distorted mythologizing.
D)the expressed views of a minority of Founders.
40
After considerable debate, as mentioned in "God and the Founders," the members of the Continental Congress decided against opening their session with a prayer.
A)True
B)False
41
George Washington, as explained in "A Day to Remember: July 4, 1776," was particularly anxious for the Continental Congress to declare a newly independent government:
A)in order to legitimate his military campaign.
B)to provide an end goal for the war.
C)as a rallying cry for the troops.
D)in order to raise funds for the troops.
42
Some members of the Continental Congress, as noted in "A Day to Remember: July 4, 1776," were opposed to a formal declaration of independence because they:
A)wanted more time to decide the exact structure of the new government.
B)were concerned that it would give the British too much warning of their intentions.
C)thought some of the states could become nations in themselves.
D)did not trust some members of the Congress to follow through with their promises.
43
The United States, as pointed out in "A Day to Remember: July 4, 1776," did not officially declare independence from Britain until two weeks after July 4.
A)True
B)False
44
As stated in "The Patriot Who Refused to Sign the Declaration of Independence," after Parliament levied a new set of taxes on paint, paper, lead, and tea with the Townshend Duties of 1767, John Dickinson galvanized colonial resistance by penning Letters From a:
A)Pennsylvania Farmer.
B)Massachusetts Representative.
C)Delaware Doctor.
D)Connecticut Lawyer.
45
As identified in "The Patriot Who Refused to Sign the Declaration of Independence," Dickinson was the son of a land baron whose estate included 12,000 acres in:
A)New Jersey and Long Island.
B)Maryland and Delaware.
C)Scotland and Wales.
D)Northern England and Ireland.
46
As characterized in "The Patriot Who Refused to Sign the Declaration of Independence," Dickinson and his moderate cohorts were creatures of politics and ideology.
A)True
B)False
47
As cited in "America's Worst Winter Ever," it was during the extreme cold of January 1780 that the words "the ink now freezes in my pen within five feet of the fire in my parlour, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon" were written by Timothy Matlack, a patriot known for having:
A)been the first Pennsylvanian wounded by British gunfire.
B)supplied the horse for Paul Revere's famous midnight ride.
C)inscribed the official copy of the Declaration of Independence.
D)been the prodigal apprentice of printer Benjamin Franklin.
48
As brought out in "America's Worst Winter Ever," compared to those endured by the Continental Army at Morristown, the climatic conditions were mild at Valley Forge in 1777–78 and a year later at:
A)Middlebrook, New Jersey.
B)Albany, New York.
C)Minersville, Pennsylvania.
D)Wilmington, Delaware.
49
As noted in "America's Worst Winter Ever," nobody celebrated the brave endurance of Valley Forge during the Revolution itself.
A)True
B)False
50
As identified in "Franklin Saves the Peace," Franklin's fellow peace-treaty negotiators, a pair of contentious lawyers determined to take no advice or guidance from France, were John Adams and:
A)John Hancock.
B)John Jay.
C)John Jacob Astor.
D)John Hart.
51
As expressed in "Franklin Saves the Peace," Britain's double-talking secretary of state for home, Irish, and American affairs in April 1782 was:
A)Thomas Townshend.
B)the Viscount Stormont.
C)Lord Shelburne.
D)Richard Oswald.
52
As indicated in "Franklin Saves the Peace," by the time peace negotiations began in April 1782, the British had become disgusted with and indifferent to America's independence.
A)True
B)False
53
As stated in "Madison's Radical Agenda," the radical proposals Madison brought to the Constitutional Convention were largely, by consent, embodied in the document that became known as the:
A)Virginia Plan.
B)Second Articles of Confederation.
C)Bill of Rights.
D)Constitution of the United States.
54
As noted in "Madison's Radical Agenda," it was Madison's good fortune that he had an ally in the leading member of the Virginia delegation—none other than:
A)George Washington.
B)Thomas Jefferson.
C)George Mason.
D)Benjamin Franklin.
55
According to "Madison's Radical Agenda," Madison's proposal for a federal power to override state laws never gained any traction.
A)True
B)False
56
As noted in "Wall Street's First Collapse," President George Washington had to contend with the savage feud that had exploded between Alexander Hamilton, his secretary of the treasury, and Thomas Jefferson, his:
A)attorney general.
B)secretary of state.
C)closest personal adviser.
D)vice president.
57
As profiled in "Wall Street's First Collapse," the former superintendent of finance during the Revolution who sent agents galloping into the western reaches of New York, Pennsylvania, and other states to buy up state paper at a few cents on the dollar was the nation's wealthiest man, namely:
A)Congressman Thomas Hartley of New York.
B)industrialist Dr. John Rouse of Pennsylvania.
C)Governor Arthur St. Clair of Ohio.
D)Senator Robert Morris of Pennsylvania.
58
As asserted in "Wall Street's First Collapse," Alexander Hamilton regarded democracy as a "disease," dangerous to the nation's stability.
A)True
B)False
59
As set forth in "Adams Appoints Marshall," most jurists and constitutional scholars today would probably contend that the most controlling precedent to be set in the early republic was laid down in the 1803 Supreme Court decision:
A)Marbury v. Madison.
B)Gibbons v. Ogden.
C)Dred Scott v. Sandford.
D)McCulloch v. Maryland.
60
As noted in "Adams Appoints Marshall," the first chief justice of the United States was:
A)John Rutledge.
B)John Jay.
C)Samuel Chase.
D)Salmon P. Chase.
61
As spelled out in "Adams Appoints Marshall," once the Jeffersonian Republicans seized the White House and control of Congress, they were set on further reducing the power of the existing judiciary, the only branch of the federal government they did not control.
A)True
B)False
62
As noted in "The Revolution of 1803," the United States in 1803 consisted of 16 states—that is, the original 13, plus the 3 later additions that included all of the following, except:
A)Vermont.
B)West Virginia.
C)Kentucky.
D)Tennessee.
63
As stated in "The Revolution of 1803," the area of the United States in 1803 that stretched from the area between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Great Lakes is known as the:
A)Western Frontier.
B)Old Northwest.
C)Indiana Territory.
D)Great Plains.
64
As mentioned in "The Revolution of 1803," there were very few Americans who in 1803 believed that the United States was "already too big."
A)True
B)False
65
As identified in "Dolley Madison Saves the Day," during the War of 1812, the ruthless commander of British assaults against Americans along the Atlantic coastline was Sir:
A)William Winder.
B)Albert Gallatin.
C)George Cockburn.
D)Henry Carroll.
66
According to "Dolley Madison Saves the Day," as the siege on Washington approached, Dolley Madison began a descriptive letter to her:
A)sister Lucy.
B)cousin Edward Coles.
C)cousin Sally Coles.
D)friend Charles Carroll.
67
As noted in "Dolley Madison Saves the Day," although she was born a Quaker, Dolley Madison saw herself as a fighter.
A)True
B)False
68
As set forth in "Abigail Adams' Last Act of Defiance," within a few years of writing, "we [ladies] are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation," Abigail Adams did in fact carry out a mini-revolution in the arena that mattered to her the most—namely:
A)the society of widows of the American Revolution.
B)rural Massachusetts.
C)her own household.
D)Washington, D.C.
69
As cited in "Abigail Adams' Last Act of Defiance," by the end of 1815, Abigail Adams' invested funds had grown to more than $5,000 (equivalent to about $100,000 today), a financial resource she sometimes referred to as her:
A)nest egg.
B)bank of independence.
C)pocket money.
D)secret stash.
70
As pointed out in "Abigail Adams' Last Act of Defiance," during the lifetime of Abigail Adams, single women, including widows, were allowed to own and control property.
A)True
B)False
71
As pointed out in "The Everyday Life of Enslaved People in the Antebellum South," the harsh regime of slave labor on America's sugar estates mirrored the slave societies of:
A)ancient Greece.
B)medieval Europe.
C)Ethiopia.
D)the Caribbean.
72
As noted in "The Everyday Life of Enslaved People in the Antebellum South," the dread of being separated from family and friends was especially acute among slaves who lived in:
A)Mississippi and Alabama.
B)Tennessee and North Carolina.
C)Georgia and South Carolina.
D)Maryland and Virginia.
73
As maintained in "The Everyday Life of Enslaved People in the Antebellum South," contrary to popular belief, the antebellum South was not a place characterized by sexual violence against African American women.
A)True
B)False
74
The histories of the rise of the factory system in the United States that were written in the 1970s, as explained in "Liberty is Exploitation," differed from most economic and business histories in that they focused on the concerns of:
A)consumers.
B)factory managers.
C)average workers.
D)distant investors.
75
The first to respond to Samuel Slater's advertisements looking for apprentices for his factories, as presented in "Liberty is Exploitation," were:
A)recent immigrants looking to learn a new trade.
B)poor-law officials who sent indigent boys.
C)young, unmarried women.
D)former slaves.
76
Until recently, as noted in "Liberty is Exploitation," the rise of the factory system in the early American republic has received little interest from historians.
A)True
B)False
77
The Blackburns, as explained in "From Detroit to the Promised Land," had lived for two years in Detroit after their escape from slavery in:
A)Georgia.
B)South Carolina.
C)Pennsylvania.
D)Kentucky.
78
Slaves in Kentucky, as described in "From Detroit to the Promised Land," were often in fear of being sold because:
A)many Kentuckians were having second thoughts about slavery.
B)they would fetch a far higher price in the more southern states, where the work was much harder.
C)it would disrupt family patterns.
D)their new owners could treat them far more harshly.
79
According to Michigan law, as reported in "From Detroit to the Promised Land," a black accused of being an escaped slave could testify on his or her own behalf against a white claimant.
A)True
B)False
80
As discussed in "The Holdouts," the Trail of Tears was a forced journey to what is now:
A)Nebraska.
B)Oklahoma.
C)Ohio.
D)Kentucky.
81
As related in "The Holdouts," in 1807, Major Ridge helped kill the powerful and duplicitous Cherokee chief:
A)Doublehead.
B)Pathkiller.
C)Skywinder.
D)Whitesnake.
82
As cited in "The Holdouts," Chief Justice John Marshall wrote, "the Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable . . . right to the lands they occupy."
A)True
B)False
83
As identified in "Polk's Peace," the diplomat who negotiated the terms of the peace treaty with Mexico after he had been dismissed from his diplomatic post by President Polk was:
A)Lewis Cass.
B)Nicholas Trist.
C)Winfield Scott.
D)Jefferson Davis.
84
As related in "Polk's Peace," Polk figured that, for the Senate to kill the treaty, because there was already resistance within his own party, it would take only seven or eight thumbs-down from the anti-Polk:
A)Whigs.
B)Free-Soilers.
C)Democrats.
D)Republicans.
85
According to "Polk's Peace," during the war with Mexico, President Polk's generals never lost a battle.
A)True
B)False
86
As noted in "Drake's Rock Oil," up until the time that rock oil became an accessible commodity, Americans had lit their homes with lamps fueled primarily by:
A)seed oils.
B)lard.
C)peat.
D)whale oil.
87
As profiled in "Drake's Rock Oil," in the search for a man to make the untried oil drilling and pumping a reality, the most obvious qualifications that won Edwin Drake the job included all of the following, except that he:
A)was a retired conductor and could travel for free by rail.
B)was available.
C)knew northwestern Pennsylvania like the back of his hand.
D)appeared to be tenacious in character.
88
As pointed out in "Drake's Rock Oil," Drake had earned the rank of colonel during the Mexican-American War.
A)True
B)False
89
As related in "The Emancipation Question," the primary reason that New York Times editor William G. Sewell headed south to the Caribbean islands in 1859 was to:
A)research the effects of abolition.
B)expose his tuberculosis to a healthier climate.
C)escape charges of tax evasion.
D)observe the slave trade in Barbados.
90
As brought out in "The Emancipation Question," advocates on both sides of the emancipation debate argued over whether or not the end of slavery in the British West Indies had caused the decline of:
A)immigration.
B)sugar production.
C)the white population.
D)the black population.
91
As reported in "The Emancipation Question," Sewell openly sympathized with the argument of the Abolitionists.
A)True
B)False
92
According to "Abolitionist John Doy," John Doy's profession was:
A)doctor.
B)lawyer.
C)newspaper editor.
D)minister.
93
As reported in "Abolitionist John Doy," African American William Riley:
A)died during Doy's arrest.
B)was an escaped slave.
C)had his free papers.
D)had never been kidnapped before.
94
As pointed out in "Abolitionist John Doy," John Doy was never convicted of any crime.
A)True
B)False
95
As identified in "John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry," John Brown was a devout:
A)Arminian.
B)Anabaptist.
C)Calvinist.
D)Catholic.
96
As noted in "John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry," the company of U.S. Marines that arrived at Harpers Ferry was under the command of Colonel:
A)Robert E. Lee.
B)Jefferson Davis.
C)J.E.B. Stuart.
D)Ulysses S. Grant.
97
According to "John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry," when Brown and his men forcibly liberated slaves from their owners, many of the slaves were dismayed.
A)True
B)False
98
As described in "Free at Last," the first thing that visitors to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati encounter, in the lofty atrium facing the Ohio River, is a:
A)boulder etched with the names of those who traveled to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
B)life-size statue of Harriet Tubman holding a lantern lit by an eternal flame.
C)black granite pedestal with the pieces of a broken chain on top of it.
D)nineteenth-century enclosure for chaining up slaves to be sold.
99
As cited in "Free at Last," by its own definition, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a "museum of:
A)celebration."
B)conscience."
C)indignation."
D)persistence."
100
As noted in "Free at Last," the Underground Railroad was the nation's first great civil disobedience movement.
A)True
B)False
101
According to "There Goes the South," Abraham Lincoln contended at the time of his election that the sole way out of the nation's impasse over slavery was:
A)emancipation.
B)expatriation of slaves.
C)a prohibition against acquiring new territory.
D)an extension of the Missouri Compromise.
102
As noted in "There Goes the South," in the months between his election and inauguration, Abraham Lincoln:
A)said very little in public about slavery.
B)offered no means of conciliation for southern states.
C)broke with tradition by often speaking in public as president-elect.
D)made his position on slavery very clear.
103
As reported in "There Goes the South," Lincoln believed at the time of his first election that he did not have the legal authority to abolish slavery.
A)True
B)False
104
President Lincoln, as explained in "Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation," based his authority in freeing enslaved workers on:
A)the right to due process.
B)the right to free speech and association.
C)congressional authority to enact legislation.
D)presidential war powers.
105
Prior to the formal Emancipation Proclamation, as set forth in "Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation," Lincoln had felt obligated to uphold states' rights to permit slavery because the Constitution protected:
A)the right of states to establish their own laws.
B)free trade between the states.
C)property rights.
D)privacy rights.
106
According to "Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation," Lincoln believed that the treatment of slavery in the U.S. Constitution suggested that the framers had intended for the institution to continue indefinitely.
A)True
B)False
107
According to "Lincoln and Douglass," the master orator Frederick Douglass had been born in 1818 as the slave child named:
A)Joshua Davis.
B)Douglas Roberts.
C)Edward McDougall.
D)Frederick Bailey.
108
As noted in "Lincoln and Douglass," one of the compelling chapters in Douglass's life story was his daring escape from slavery on:
A)the west banks of the Mississippi Delta.
B)Georgia's Cumberland Island.
C)Maryland's Eastern Shore.
D)a northern Virginia plantation.
109
As cited in "Lincoln and Douglass," it was largely the brute extremes of war that drew Lincoln and Douglass together in what Douglass in 1862 called "characters of blood and fire."
A)True
B)False
110
As defined in "Steven Hahn Sings the Slaves Triumphant," self-governed runaway-slave communities, such as those established in Haiti, were known as:
A)festoons.
B)maroons.
C)pontoons.
D)dragoons.
111
As cited in "Steven Hahn Sings the Slaves Triumphant," the "general strike" among slaves was written about in Black Reconstruction by:
A)Harriet Beecher Stowe.
B)W.E.B. Du Bois.
C)Rutherford B. Hayes.
D)Frederick Douglass.
112
As revealed in "Steven Hahn Sings the Slaves Triumphant," historians have learned that the abolitionist movement was made up chiefly of people of African descent.
A)True
B)False
113
In discussing Wallace Turnage's background, the author of "A Slave's Audacious Bid for Freedom" notes that:
A)both of his parents had been slaves.
B)he had been sold multiple times.
C)he had no memory of his family.
D)he had always worked as a field hand.
114
As reported in "A Slave's Audacious Bid for Freedom," the incident that precipitated Wallace Turnage's leaving the Minge family was:
A)a dispute over money owed him.
B)on a river boat in Savannah.
C)a carriage accident.
D)being ordered to steal.
115
As stated in "A Slave's Audacious Bid for Freedom," Wallace Turnage lived into the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
116
According to "A Graceful Exit," as April 1865 neared, to discuss the end of the Civil War, an exhausted Abraham Lincoln met with his two top generals, Ulysses S. Grant and:
A)George Meade.
B)Philip Henry Sheridan.
C)Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
D)William Tecumseh Sherman.
117
As cited in "A Graceful Exit," Robert E. Lee once boasted that he could continue the war for another 20 years if he could get his Confederate army into:
A)the Potomac River Basin.
B)the Blue Ridge Mountains.
C)western Ohio.
D)New England.
118
As explained in "A Graceful Exit," just days before Lee's surrender, the fleeing Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, had issued his own call for guerrilla warfare.
A)True
B)False
119
As pointed out in "How the West Was Lost," at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the vast tract of land now known as the Great Plains was described as the:
A)Open Territory of the United States.
B)Great American Desert.
C)Continental Expanse.
D)Last Frontier.
120
As considered in "How the West Was Lost," however little value could be placed on the promises in the treaties made with Native Americans, their terms stand as clear indicators of the new Americans' perceptions of how to deal with what they called the:
A)Heathen Inconvenience.
B)Manifest Order.
C)Indian Problem.
D)Indigenous Resistance.
121
As mentioned in "How the West Was Lost," the Lakota and Cheyenne lived in semi-permanent villages.
A)True
B)False
122
As shown in "'It Was We, the People; Not We, the White Males,'" the first major nation to grant women equal voting rights, in 1893, was:
A)Switzerland.
B)France.
C)New Zealand.
D)Japan.
123
As cited in "'It Was We, the People; Not We, the White Males,'" Susan B. Anthony asserted that, to women without the vote, the American government was:
A)a misaligned democracy.
B)an embryonic republic.
C)an odious aristocracy.
D)an oligarchy of ignorance.
124
As noted in "'It Was We, the People; Not We, the White Males,'" China did not give women the right to vote until 1971.
A)True
B)False
125
As cited in "The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage," President Lincoln characterized the Civil War as the struggle for a:
A)higher conscience.
B)mended unity.
C)vast future.
D)new independence.
126
As mentioned in "The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage," in their fight against the acceptance of slavery in the United States, black and white abolitionists in the American North worked with their allies in:
A)Britain.
B)Jamaica.
C)Russia.
D)Mexico.
127
According to "The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage," the African Americans who came into the war as soldiers and sailors for the Union were greater in number than all the forces at Gettysburg.
A)True
B)False





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